Suburban sprawl and public transport deserts
"From the 1950s, sprawling low-density suburbs have been built on the assumption that households would own cars and that public transport was unnecessary."
“It’s really too late to do much in the short term, because we’ve spent 70 years planning in the other direction...The hole has been dug.”
“If we’re interested in equity and justice in our cities, then we need to be providing people, no matter where they live, with a good quality level of public transport access that allows them to get jobs, services and education that are available to people in inner-city areas." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/10/fuel-crisis-australia-public-transport-not-an-option
#FossilFuel #petrol #CarDependency #Suburbia #sprawl #biodiversity #extinction #PublicTransportDeserts #MobilityDesign #inequality #war #ClimateDisruption #CarMinds #malls #parking #obesity #walking #infrastructure #SmallShops #TyrannyOfDistance
https://iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
If this were a #tax on #oil and invested in #walk #bike #bus #train - imagine how much better life would be for all (e.g. fewer dead kids). But #US would rather hand it all to oil companies who will use it to ruin #elections and make life worse for everyone. #US #voters are terrifyingly suicidal.
Stop destabilizing the Earth system! (Pt. 2)
Halting and reversing biodiversity loss toward restoring Earth system stability
... "Our findings emphasize that preventing the loss of intact biomes, ecosystems, and species assemblages is the most critical strategy while acknowledging the urgency of extinction prevention and the need for restoration. Additionally, we highlight the importance of incorporating Indigenous and local knowledge systems alongside scientific methods to achieve effective and equitable conservation outcomes. Finally, we discuss the need for economic transformation and the private sector’s role in fostering an NP future."
"Incorporating Indigenous or traditional knowledge and practices, which are rooted in responsibility to the living world and inherently include awareness of biotic and abiotic processes, is essential to achieving the NP goal."
"The NP shift requires transforming our economic system to work within the Earth system and equitably support human development.
Human exploitation of nature driven by prevailing economic systems of production and consumption is causing a rapid and catastrophic decline in biodiversity (1) while simultaneously disrupting the climate system (2). These actions are actively destabilizing the Earth system upon which human health and development depend (3), and the trajectory of environmental degradation is accelerating, placing life as we know it at grave risk" >>
Locke, H., Hauer, R., et al. (2026). Nature Positive: halting and reversing biodiversity loss toward restoring Earth system stability. Frontiers in Science, 4, 1609998. doi.or >>
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2026.1609998/full
#biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #NaturePositiv #ecosystems #degradation #risks #transformation #EconomicSystems #indigenousKnowledge #indigenousPeoples #3Cs #governance #GBF #extinction
i try to emphasize good news
and if i can't do that i try to emphasize anger over sadness
but there's nothing i can do about this bit of news except be depressed:
"Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor #penguins at risk of #extinction"
essentially, #globalWarming, the #climateCrisis, is breaking up the ice the #emperorPenguin depends upon to raise its young, and this is resulting in mass killings of their young now
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Bad judgement in governance and ignorance of ecology are not unique to 2026. A story from 1956.
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#birds #environment #science #climate #extinction
https://www.sweetlightning.eco/everybody-comes-to-fight-sparrows/
When you hear/see/read the term "Renewable" in headlines and the A/V catching image is a green field with huge propellers, be sure the paid prop. comes from #BigOil #BigCoal industrial complex
There is nothing renewable about biodiesel from monoculture plantations in SE Asia after GIGANTIC tropical forest destruction.
There is nothing renewable of passing public land/lakes/rivers to private industry, AND SUBSIDIZE THEM, to blackmail for electricity consumers.dependents of el.power.
There is nothing renewable about burning every anumal, plant and tree on the planet to replace Oil/Coal (FOR LESS THAN A YEAR) and call it biomass, you might as well call Artificial Extinction a renewable practice
Thereis nothing renewable about multiplying landfills with obsolete EVs, Solar Panels, batteries, and WindGens that cost 3 times to recycle than make from scratch. In 20y the landfills will be bigger than cities, 100% toxic and uncleaneable.
There is nothing renewable about uranium depletion either
Change your habbits, lifestyle, and consumption of power, there is no GREEN solution to the dead end we have reached, or keep funding #OilWAR to maintain the "LIFESTYLE"
AND STOP THE STATE from converting ANTTHING PUBLIC to Private for the Oil/Coal/Power industry
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#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Algeria #AU #Australia #DanJørgensen #Energy #energyprices #energysecurity #FatihBirol #Fossilfuels #France #gas #Germany #greenenergytransition #Iran #italy #Norway #Poland #Qatar #RENEWABLEENERGY #Science #Spain #UnitedStates
#OIL #COAL #CARBON #EXTINction #EXtinctionrebelion #PlanetOfthehumans
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